Description of Issue - heavy dropouts and pixelation. Started to see this initially on 11 during the Ryder Cup. Switched over to KPIX (5) and sure enough, happening there as well. Now receiving 771 Searching for Satellite Signal - on SOLID 771 now !!!!

This problem was worse than I had ever experienced during the Rose Bowl. But then, Brent Musberger is the most annoying thing in all of sports broadcasting, and he made me forget about the brrrrrrpppps.

I watched the Rose Bowl and Musberger was the only annoying thing I noticed. I am not in a position to get KGO OTA, I get the others fine. I would be curious to find out if this condition also exists OTA as well as D*.

At times on various stations I'll get a BRRR, a picture freeze and pixilaztion then back to normal. Its almost like there is a loss of synchronization of the signal.

The tech composed an email to their broadcast unit and called me back the next day with a report. Apparently, shortly after they "reported it to broadcast" they received a reply that it had just been fixed -- and indeed by evening the periodic BRRR was gone. The tech couldn't tell me whether it was KGO that fixed it or D*'s broadcast unit.

Here's the thing: If audio distortion on a particular station ever happens again, call D's tech support. Tell them that this has happened before and that "it's been determined to be a broadcast problem and they should report it to broadcast." If they give you a song and dance, ask for a supervisor.

Apparently this audio distortion bug is a known issue and can be fixed when reported.

This problem has been going on for over a year+ on KGO-7 .... I reported it to their engineers like 4 months ago. They are clearly unable to fix this. This was introduced with the MPEG4s LILs and seems to affect their station the worst of all -- for whatever reason. (I never had this issue until I installed the H20-100 & H20-700 - to get the MPEG4s required by D*.) It is very very annoying, I agree. In fact because of this we purposely do not watch KGO unless there is something that is a MUST that I want to see.

It's been lurking there for a couple of months, but now it's grown bad enough to complain.

(HR20-700, 0x0250 -- but has been doing it on a variety of CEs)

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It would be useful if users having problems with audio stutters and macroblocking/pixelation would say whether they are using a DVR and, if so, whether they are using an esata drive. After over a year of using my esata drive and occasionally switching back the internal HR20 drive, these problems seem to occur more frequently when using the esata. I encounter them most frequently on the CBS and ABC locals but they sometimes occur on many other channels as well. Also, they occur when viewing the channels either OTA (via the DVR) and via D*.